Jingjing Wu

Associate Professor; Associate Head Graduate Studies

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

PhD - Statistics

University of Alberta, 2007

MSc - Probability

Beijing Normal University, 2002

BSc - Computational Mathematics

Central University for Nationalities, 1999

Contact information

Phone

Office: 403.220.6303

Location

Office : MS548

Courses

  • STAT 523 - Non-parametric Statistics
  • STAT 601.23 - Topics in Probability and Statistics (Asymptotic Statistic Inference)
  • STAT 701 - Theory of Probability I

Research and teaching

Research areas

  • Minimum distance estimation
  • Non/semi-parametric models
  • Regression/Logistic regression models
  • Efficiency and robustness
  • Mixture models
  • Survival analysis
  • Feature selection
  • Classification and clustering

Publications

Journal articles - peer reviewed

  • Lu, Shanshan, Wu, Jingjing and Lu, Xuewen. "Efficient estimation of the varying-coefficient partially linear proportional odds model with current status data". Metrika 82.2 (2019): 173-194. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing and Karunamuni, Rohana. "Efficient and robust tests for semiparametric models". Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 70.4 (2018): 761-788. Print.
  • Li, Haocheng, Wu, Jingjing and Yang, Jian. "Minimum profile Hellinger distance estimation for two-sample location models". Journal of Data Science 16.3 (2018): 465-484. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing and Zhou, Xiaofan. "Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for a semiparametric location-shifted mixture model". Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 88.13 (2018): 2507-2527. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing, Yao, Weixin and Xiang, Sijia. "Computation of an efficient and robust estimator in a semiparametric mixture model". Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 87.11 (2017): 2128-2137. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing, Xing, Nana and Liu, Shawn. "Maximum Lq-likelihood estimation for gamma distributions". Journal of Advanced Statistics 2.1 (2017): 54-70. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing, Chen, Guoqiang and Feng, Zeny. "An efficient semiparametric approach for marker gene selection and patient classification". Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal 1.2 (2017): BBOAJ.MS.ID.555558. Print.
  • Zhong, Wenyan, Lu, Xuewen and Wu, Jingjing. "Feature selection for cancer classification using microarray gene expression data". Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal 1.2 (2017): BBOAJ.MS.ID.555557. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing and Karunamuni, Rohana. "Profile Hellinger distance estimation". Statistics 49. (2015): 711-740. Print.
  • Xiang, Sijia, Yao, Weixin and Wu, Jingjing. "Minimum profile Hellinger distance estimation for a semiparametric mixture model". Canadian Journal of Statistics 42. (2014): 246-267. Print.
  • Xie, Xiaoran and Wu, Jingjing. "Some improvement on convergence rates of kernel density estimator". Applied Mathematics - Special Issue on Survival Analysis 5. (2014): 1684-1696. Print.
  • Zhu, Yayuan, Wu, Jingjing and Lu, Xuewen. "Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for a two-sample semiparametric cure rate model with censored survival data". Computational Statistics 28. (2013): 2495-2518. Print.
  • Chen, Guoqiang and Wu, Jingjing. "Molecular classification of acute leukemia". Some Recent Advances in Mathematics and Statistics - Proceedings of Statistics 2011 Canada/IMST 2011-FIM XX, (2013): 60-74. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing and Karunamuni, Rohana. "Efficient Hellinger distance estimates for semiparametric models". Journal of Multivariate Analysis 107. (2012): 1-23. Print.
  • Karunamuni, Rohana and Wu, Jingjing. "One-step minimum Hellinger distance estimation". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 55. (2011): 3148-3164. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing, Karunamuni, Rohana and Zhang, Biao. "Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a two-sample semiparametric model". Journal of Multivariate Analysis 101. (2010): 1102-1122. Print.
  • Karunamuni, Rohana, Li, Jianjun and Wu, Jingjing. "Robust empirical Bayes tests for continuous distributions". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 140. (2010): 268-282. Print.
  • Wu, Jingjing and Karunamuni, Rohana. "On minimum Hellinger distance estimation". Canadian Journal of Statistics 37. (2009): 514-533. Print.
  • Karunamuni, Rohana and Wu, Jingjing. "Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a nonparametric mixture model". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 139. (2009): 1118-1133. Print.
  • Karunamuni, Rohana, Liang, Tachen and Wu, Jingjing. "Robust empirical Bayes tests for discrete distributions". Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 20. (2008): 101-113. Print.
  • Karunamuni, Rohana, Sriram, T.N. and Wu, Jingjing. "Rates of convergence of an adaptive kernel density estimator for finite mixture models". Statistics and Probability Letters 76. (2006): 221-230. Print.
  • Karunamuni, Rohana, Sriram, T.N. and Wu, Jingjing. "Asymptotic normality of an adaptive kernel density estimator for finite mixture models". Statistics and Probability Letters 76. (2006): 211-220. Print.

 

Awards

  • 2017 - GREAT Supervisor Award - University of Calgary
  • 2017 - GSA Excellence in Supervision Nominee - University of Calgary
  • 2008 - Pierre-Robillard Award - Statistical Society of Canada